Jubilee

Jubilation Lee is a Chinese-American girl who was born in Los Angeles, California, where she lived with her wealthy immigrant parents. An immensely talented gymnast, she was believed to have the potential to participate in the Olympic Games. However, Jubilation used her agility engaging in petty robberies with her best friend, making their escape on their roller blades. Most of her time was spent in malls. One day, Jubilee was trapped in a dead-end alley by a pair of mall cops. Fearing juvenile detention, and her parents‘ reaction, she panicked and her mutant powers activated for the first time, destroying the entire alley.

Jubilee told her parents about her strange new abilities, but it didn’t seem to be a problem, as she soon learned how to control it to a limited degree. However, her parents were later murdered by criminals Reno and Molokai, hired by Hunter Brawn, who disguised the murder as a car accident. Jubilee was handed over to a couple in the neighborhood, but soon ran away to live at the closest thing that felt like home, the mall. There she survived by giving demonstrations of her mutant plasmoid powers for spare change, impressing many with her powers, and through petty theft. It was while living in this mall that she would first encounter the X-Men, and begin on her path as a superhero.

Pyrokinesis: As a mutant, Jubilee once and now currently generates brightly colored bursts of plasma energy which she could fire from her hands as balls, streams, or any other shape. They travel wherever Jubilee desires, and explodes at her command. She can also absorb the plasma energy back into her body without harm. A point of interest about Jubilee's powers is that she can control the effect that they had on her desired targets. These power effects have been shown to blind and emit concussive force, burn and scald skin, detonate and disintegrate solid objects, and also shatter solid metal objects such as locks and bolts. Jubilee also possesses the ability to detonate matter at a sub-atomic level, essentially making her a walking atomic bomb.

According to Emma Frost, Jubilee was one of the most powerful mutants she had ever encountered, but noted that her fear of harming others kept her from using those powers to their full potential.

Jubilee is also undetectable by Sentinels and their mutant tracking equipment, as well as by telepaths such as Psylocke. The true nature and extent of this power are still a mystery.

During her childhood, Jubilee studied at Beverly Hills Prep, excelling in gymnastics. Under the training of Wolverine, the X-Men, and Generation X, Jubilee also honed her skills in hand-to-hand combat, stealth, agility and investigative techniques. Even as a young teenager, she was able to defend herself and survive a confrontation with the Hand... a feared group of ninja assassins. She often utilizes her acrobatics while operating as a superhero. Combined now with her vampire speed and reflexes, Jubilee's fighting style resembles and utilizes a mixture of gymnastics and martial arts. Jubilee is trained and experienced in First Aid and CPR, having saved the life of a teammate and even an enemy on more than one occasion.

From the time spent living on her own as a minor, Jubilee is a talented thief, experienced in pick-pocketing and lock-picking. She also excels at rollerblading and skateboarding.

Jubilee also possesses some understanding of the inner workings of mechanics and electronics thanks to teachings by Forge.

Jubilee has shown talent in the art of swordsmanship, mentioning that she has had training from both Wolverine as well as Raizo Kodo, a samurai vampire. Her skills are competent enough to defend herself and pose a threat to Lord Deathstrike, an expert assasin and swordsman.

Jubilee was trained both by Professor X and by Emma Frost to shield her mind from telepaths.

During her time with the X-Men, Jubilee was trained to pilot the Blackbird.

Jubilee's a talented artist, complimented about it once by Terror, Inc who was using an artist's eye at the moment.